Philander C. Knox

Philander Chase Knox (6 May 1853-12 October 1921) was a US Senator from Pennsylvania (R) from 10 June 1904 to 4 March 1909 (succeeding Matthew Quay and preceding George T. Oliver) and from 4 March 1917 to 12 October 1921 (succeeding Oliver and preceding William E. Crow). He also served as Attorney-General from 5 April 1901 to 30 June 1904 (succeeding John W. Griggs and preceding William Henry Moody) and as Secretary of State from 6 March 1909 to 5 March 1913 (succeeding Robert Bacon and preceding William Jennings Bryan).

Biography
Philander Chase Knox was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1853, and he formed a lifelong friendship with President William McKinley while studying at Mount Union College. He became a lawyer in Pittsburgh in 1875, and he served as an Assistant US Attorney from 1876 to 1877 and counsel for the Carnegie Steel Corporation. In 1901, McKinley appointed Knox to be US Attorney General, and he served from 1901 to 1904. That year, he was chosen by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker to finish the unexpired term of the late US Senator Matthew Quay, and he served from 1904 to 1909, when he was appointed Secretary of State under President William Howard Taft. He left office in 1913, and he returned to the Senate from 1917 to 1921, when he died in office.